OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Policy Studies is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	122
Philanthropic governance in a Southern European setting: unpacking discourses of educational innovation reforms	38
Hegemony without hierarchy: how the United Nations Global Digital Compact discursively constructs global AI governance norms	37
What is wrong with positivist policy process theories? Controversies over empirically grasping policy complexity	35
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	27
Deliberative democracy, public policy, and local government	22
The surrogacy question, unresolved: surrogacy policy debate as a hegemonic struggle over rights	21
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	20
Institutional embeddedness: activist networks in defense of COVID-19 victims in Brazil	19
Grappling with post-truth politics - facilitation strategies for policy-making in troubled times	15
Integrating co-analysis and researcher reflexivity into Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework: A cervical screening case study	15
Empathetic policy design: emotional engagement, inclusive space, and empowered deliberation	14
Forking paths of AI governance – how risk management frameworks shape the politics of AI	13
Policy translations of citizen participation and new public governance: the case of school governing bodies	12
The policy sciences of Harold Lasswell: contextual orientation and the critical dimension	11
A blueprint for what? From a critical policy discursive analysis of UN’s sustainable development goals to a constructive rearticulation for their application	10
The politics of platform regulation by robert gorwa	8
Invisible dimensions of climate obstruction and road transport continuity. The role of mental infrastructure maintenance	8
Reproductive racism: migration, birth control and the specter of population	8
Critical reflexivity in policy studies is “a skin, not a sweater” – debating a common ground between interpretivism and positivism	8
Autonomy and paternalism – framing Swedish COVID-19 restriction policy	8
Governing by promises. Water scarcity and rural hegemony in Morocco	8
How do you feel the state? Emotional engagement of citizens with development policies in Pakistan	7
Variegated Economies	7
Policy metaphors we live by: beyond the bounds of street-level bureaucracy	7

Informing strategic climate action: the Climate Social Science Network	7
Articulating AI futures for Brazil: on different regimes of technological solutionism	7
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	6
Finally, a new global agenda on Harold Lasswell!	6
Nobody’s decision: AI and the perfection of bureaucracy	6
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	6
Loud and quiet politicization. How novel regulatory projects challenge the neoliberal order of ‘essential work’ in Germany	6
Constructing the imaginary of ‘international talent’ in Finnish migration policy 2006–2024	5
Media and the staging of policy controversy: obesity and the UK sugar tax	5
New models of housing and care: the politics of housing an aging population in Switzerland	5
Transformations, policy, and politics in the agri-food system: entanglements of concentration, financialization, and digitalization	5
Charting the course, charting the coast: exploring epistemic orientations in the making of sustainable aquaculture futures	5
Exposing Ourselves to Ourselves: Observations on the Contextual Principle	5
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	5
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	5
(De)politicizing animal-related policies and rights: discourses and institutional dynamics in Finnish city councils	4
Wicked problems or second-order problem? A phenomenological stance	4
Governing through the community: state transversality, neoliberal governmentality, and struggles for schooling of social movements	4
Cancritical policy studiesoutsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy	4
With or without X : can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires?	4
Policy learning in crisis governance: translating narratives and reframing actions for co-evolving futures	4
Discourse, framing and narrative: three ways of doing critical, interpretive policy analysis	4
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: an analysis of policy in the United Kingdom	4
Towards a post-neoliberal social policy: capabilities, human rights and social empowerment	4
Collaboration and public policy: agency in the pursuit of public purpose	4
Policy experts’ strategy in deliberative polling on Korean pension reform: utilizing valence and polysemic ideas through framing and narrative strategies	4
Chinese perspectives on the US-China rivalry: navigating geo-economic and technological tensions in a new era of global statism	4
Sustainable development discourse and development aid in Germany: tracking the changes from environmental protectionism towards private sector opportunities	4
Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration	4
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home	4
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards	4
Racialized knowledges: understanding the construction of the Muslim ‘terrorist’ in the policy process	4